When I present to organizations or events I recommend every business have a Facebook fan page. Integrating that Fan Page with current marketing out posts can get tricky because the domain name is long and ugly.
When you first create a Fan page the URL looks like:
–http://www.facebook.com/pages/Personal-Branding-Social-Media-Strategy/116212446792?ref=nf.
This looks real nice on a brochure or in your email signature doesn’t it?
Consider the clean option.
What if we can clean up this URL and have it look like –http://www.facebook.com/YourSocialMedia?
There is! All you need is 25 fans. Once you have 25 fans, you can get a vanity URL… if it’s available. This is a race and maybe you didn’t realize that you’re already behind. Once you create the business Fan Page, invite your friends and other people who would be interested in supporting your business and becoming evangelists about your business. Then do not forget to customize your URL!
Once you have 25 fans click here: 25 fans!!!
I remember waiting down to the second to get http://facebook.com/PeterLang and now I’ve been able to convert other Facebook properties to vanity URLs and I love how it enables cleaner sharing of the site. What about the old URL links? They don’t disappear, they work!
There you have it…how to get a custom Facebook URL. Don’t have 25 fans? Invite your friends!
Become a Fan!